LZ5 and Lizard
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LZ5/Lizard is a compressed data format, and compressed file format.
The original name was LZ5. There were two major versions of LZ5: 1.x and 2.x. In 2017, LZ5 2.x was renamed to Lizard 1.x. (Or something like that. More research may be needed here.)
LZ5/Lizard was apparently developed by Przemyslaw Skibinski, based on LZ4 source code by Yann Collet.
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Disambiguation
This "LZ5" is not related to the compression scheme identifiers used by LArc and PUT.
Identification
LZ5 1.x compressed files start with bytes 05 22 4D 18.
LZ5 2.x and Lizard 1.x compressed files start with 06 22 4D 18.
Compare to LZ4#Identification.
Specifications
Software
Links
- LZ5 announcement (forum post)
